Santa

Last year Sophie was deathly afraid of Santa, so i though this year she would be a year older and enjoy Santa...boy was I wrong! So the only pictures we got with Santa this year were pretty sad, but here goes! With my luck, Sophie will be okay with Santa next year, but Brody will then be afraid of him.

Obviously it still didn't help with me being in the picture!

We tried to get Sophie to take a picture with Brody by the tree, no Santa...and as you can see, she was still upset from the Santa picture before. She couldn't even stop crying to take a good picture with a TREE! She was practically pushing Brody away too....ah, sibling love!

First manicure

It is hard to tell in the picture, but Sophie has her nails painted. With all the snow and rain I decided that we needed something new to do if we had to stay indoors for a few days. So, I bought a light pink...in case she wiggled and it went all over her fingers! But she actually stayed very still and I dried them with a blow dryer. I can't wait to give Sophie another manicure, it was a lot of fun!

Big Boy Now!

Brody has his first session with his occupational therapist yesterday. She was out at our house to see Brody about 3 weeks ago, and he was having a lot of problems. But when she came today to work on his rolling and sitting, she was very surprised at what he learned to do in the last 3 weeks! Brody had a lot of fun with her, which made her happy because she said that normally kids cry through the whole session. Brody can now sit, but we have to keep a pillow behind him because he'll just fall backwards because he doesn't pay attention. He also stands with someone holding him a bit, which is a BIG improvement because before he wouldn't put any weight on his legs. After the 45 minute session Brody went right now for a nap because he was exhausted! We look forward to his next session in 2 weeks!

Snow Day

So we did have lots of plans Friday until the snow came.....it was pretty and all, but I didn't want to be driving in it. We decided to stay home and keep cozy instead. Even that was a great idea until Sophie noticed it was snowing and wanted to go outside, so we all bundled up and went out to play. Of course not 5 minutes later she wanted to come back in! So we spent the day going out to play in the snow, in spurts. I figured we should enjoy it while it lasts!

It didn't take her long to figure out that it tasted like ice when she ate it....so I think she consumed quite a bit of snow today!
Our backdoor window was accumulating quite a bit of snow.

Poor Brody, we dragged him outside with us even though he could probably care less! He looked so cute all bundled up though!

Thanksgiving

We had a busy but fun Thanksgiving this year! We all went to my aunt's house for dinner, and they had their pool heated so all the kids got to swim....so of course Sophie had a great time! We ate a lot of good food, played games afterwards and got to see my wonderful cousin and her fiancee (which we don't get to see fotne enough!) Then the next morning, Friday, we left for Louisianna for the weekend with my parents and my sister's family. It was hectic, but the kids had endless fun playing outside together and I just had fun spending time doing nothing with my family.
Gotta love a heated pool!

Not sure who got such a great laugh out of him, but thanks!
The kids made a tent outside and played in it for a while!

We had to stop halfway there to eat lunch, so picked up stuff at a drive thru and thought we might eat outside at a rest stop at some benches. Little did we know that there weren't many rest stops once you got into LA., so yes....as the kids started to cry we just stopped wherever we could find and it was an RV Park. That's when I really realized that I'm not a camper, although I was already pretty sure of that! Also, funny thing we noticed was that outside of the RV's some people had NICE cars, we saw an Infiniti and a Lexus.